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Silver Jews :: Take On Hollywood
Prior to the show, you could just feel the anticipation in the room…. the Joo’s were actually here in Los Angeles playing the Henry Fonda Music Box. Rumors were flying around that […]
SSLYBY Reissue :: Lambchop’s Damaged
Initially released a year ago via Catbird Records; Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin sees their album, Broom, reissued by Polyvinyl in the here and now of 2006. If you didn’t check out these guys the first […]
The Whigs :: Six Questions
Parker Gispert, vocalist for Athens, Ga. trio The Whigs , answered six questions on a Drunkard’s mind. The band’s self-released album, Give ’em All A Big Fat Lip is on my short-list […]
WEEN :: SHINOLA VOL. 1
” SHINOLA VOL. 1 is a collection of odds, ends, and leftovers from around our studio and contains killer new mixes of a lot of songs that have been floating around. I don’t […]
Chad VanGaalen :: Skelliconnection
Wow, where did this guy come from? Canada apparently. From what little information I gathered around the Interweb, VanGaalen self-released an album, entitled Infiniheart , which was later picked up by […]
Blonde On Blonde Outtakes :: Bob Dylan
Modern Times has led me to rummaging through a lot of obscure Dylan stuff that I had been neglecting for some time. This thin wild mercury music is just too […]
Bobby Bare Jr. :: The Longest Meow
Now Podcasting :: Episode 14
Welcome to last week’s show recorded at the Little Radio studios in downtown L.A. The first half of the show is dedicated to selections from Pitchfork Media’s top 200 songs from the sixties. The […]
Serge Gainsbourg :: Revisited
My introduction and love of sixties French Pop began a few years ago when a friend turned me on to the decadent sounds of Jacques Dutronc . His frenetic pop music followed […]
Dengue Fever :: Cambodian Sugar Beat
Centro-matic :: Los Angeles, CA
If you have yet to take in a live Centro-matic show, the Drunkard emphatically hopes that you will — and soon. The band landed Tuesday night here in L.A. at The Troubadour opening […]
Orange Juice :: The Glascow School
RIYL: The Smiths, Belle & Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, The Vaselines, et al. Orange Juice , while a relatively short-lived outfit, went on to influence quite a few bands that readers of […]
HEM :: New Album (Funnel Cloud)
Bob Dylan :: Modern Times
Dylan’s latest album Modern Times was released a week ago today, and after nearly a week to digest I can honestly say I am enjoying the hell out of it. I tend […]